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What does a real synfuel operation look like, the kind that can change a country's energy fortunes? The answer can be found 700 miles north of Montana near a onetime frontier outpost in Alberta called Fort McMurray. At Syncrude Canada's North Mine, a huge open pit nearly two miles across and 250 ft. deep, giant shovels scoop out a petroleum-soaked deposit called oil sand that is beginning a long journey from here into the gas tanks of American cars. The region contains enough of the crude mixture to produce an estimated 175 billion bbl. of oil, eight...
...south along the Alaskan highway before turning east into Canada. A far more direct path, called the Northern Route, would have cut across the north coast of Alaska and hooked up in Canada with the recently announced Mackenzie Valley pipeline. Both lines ultimately would feed into trunk lines in Alberta and serve the U.S. market...
Fong started grade school a year early and skipped eighth grade as a twelve year-old when her family moved from Alberta, Canada to Peoria, Ill., and she placed a grade ahead...
...Canadians weren't battered enough by microbial menaces after dealing with SARS, along comes mad cow. A routine inspection of a slaughtered Black Angus in Alberta revealed it had been infected with the disease. Inspectors have quarantined 16 sites across Canada as they explore how the cow got sick. Canada's beef industry is reeling--but it could get worse. Officials are checking whether cows on at least three farms in British Columbia may have had access to chicken feed that contained protein from the contaminated cow, thus spreading the disease more widely than thought. --By Alice Park
...provided valuable information on the "location, degree of development in capabilities, where they are," one U.S. official said. The information helped confirm that the North Korean program is much further along than the CIA suspected. Mad Cow Moos Again CANADA A routine inspection of a slaughtered Black Angus in Alberta revealed it had been infected with BSE. Food inspectors fear parts of the contaminated cow may have been inadvertently served to other cattle as feed, infecting them and potentially any beef eaters who consumed them. Inspectors quarantined 13 sites across Canada as they investigate where - and how - the Black Angus...